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Subject(s)

• Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī active 13th century—Marāḥ al-arwāḥ [Browse]
• Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 371H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the compendium of grammar entitled Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. On title page are several variations of the title and other inscriptions.List of birthdates of three Sultans (fol. 77b)
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 77 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19-20 lines per page ; fols. 11-18 frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated (fol. 59b-68b lack rubrication) ; watermark (anchor?, countermark initials with clover in between) ; MS in good condition but several folios are mended.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 6 [Ṣafar?] 1185 (fol. 76b).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي صرف افکار قلوبنا
• Colophon: قد وقع فراغ من المشق على يد ... العبد الضعيف التعريف والله اعلم بالصواب سنة 1185 تم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Flap disconnected.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Seal impression of Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ʻIzzat with date "235" (fol. 1a). Two identical seal impressions on fol. 1b. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 426.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 488.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 10.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6809.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ Marāḥ Ḥasan Pāshā
• شرح مراح حسن پاشا
• هذا كتاب شرح مرح
• كتاب المفراح في شرح المواح

Title from lower edge

• Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ Maraḥ

Title from colophon

• Kitāb al-Mifrāḥ fī sharḥ al-Mawāḥ [sic]

OCLC

1310718221

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